Wow.  It's just dawned on me that this evening seven years ago, Andres and I were scrambling around like crazy in our old London flat still emptying the place and getting ready for one of the most important and impactful adventures of our lives.  Andres was still putting my bike together and we were getting ready to set off the next morning for our 6 month cycling and volunteering trip all around the British Isles!!  Seems like yesterday and at the same time, a lifetime ago. 

So much has changed.  We relocated and settled in Canada, Andres started and closed two businesses, we bought the land of our dreams, started developing it completely from the ground up, got a dog, lived in Toronto, then Hamilton, then Bancroft, then Toronto, then who cares, I've lost count.  Oh ya and we had two kids, among other things....

I mentioned in the last post that I'd summarize a little timeline but I'm too tired for that right now.  I will one day.  For now, I'll tell you that we are living full-time in Toronto as we have been for the past couple of years and we go to visit our property and do what we can, when we can.  If someone had told me seven years ago that this is where we'd be and how far along we'd be with our project, I would've put a fist to his face and said - No way man!  We're gonna do it and we're gonna do it fast and with no money!!  Hahahaha  And then life happens... oh well.  I assure you - we have not lost our spunk.  We've just got wiser spunk now :)

Anyway, I leave you with a link to our 2012 UK cycling adventure Youtube video!  Enjoy my super high tech CGI editing skills.  I think I'll watch it now and shed a tear or two with a wee glass of Grouse. 

Good night all.

I mean we’re back online here, on the website, finally! Not sure who out there reads this (I’m thinking no one , except mom of course ;) but in case you weren’t aware, we had another baby. Been a year and a half already actually. So you can say we’ve been laying low since summer 2017. That’s not to say our whole homesteading project was ever pushed aside. We still live and breathe it every day. Looking after and trying your best to create two outstanding human beings sure does take up a tad of your time though.

It's looking like we won't be able to get back into our project with the full force this year as we so desperately would like to however, we've got many things in the works in achieving some progress and we'd like to share that with you all here.  I'm also trying to create some kind of presence on Instagram as that's where all the action seems to be these days (or am I behind on that already?!)  My name there is homesteading.gypsy.mama.      

For the record and for anyone who may be curious about the timeline with our whole experience in setting up our homestead combined with personal circumstances then please check back soon as I'm hoping to put up a little summary of that for the next post. 

In the meantime, here are some pics of Andres and our girls transplanting some young self-seeded, randomly scattered coniferous trees from our property as a boarder hedge, to block out view and sound from the road. The idea is to test out a couple different methods to decide how and what to specifically transplant before committing to moving a ton of them and realizing we should have done something different.

These pics were taken from the visit up to our land over this past weekend.  It was Easter weekend, a celebration of rebirth, fitting for the intentions we have going on at the moment.